IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Papers
(The TQCC of IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters is 12. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fast Underwater Image Enhancement for Improved Visual Perception545
FAST-LIO: A Fast, Robust LiDAR-Inertial Odometry Package by Tightly-Coupled Iterated Kalman Filter251
DIGIT: A Novel Design for a Low-Cost Compact High-Resolution Tactile Sensor With Application to In-Hand Manipulation194
A General Framework for Uncertainty Estimation in Deep Learning146
Multi-Sensor Guided Hand Gesture Recognition for a Teleoperated Robot Using a Recurrent Neural Network132
What the Constant Velocity Model Can Teach Us About Pedestrian Motion Prediction130
An Efficient Sampling-Based Method for Online Informative Path Planning in Unknown Environments130
Cooperative Control of Heterogeneous Connected Vehicle Platoons: An Adaptive Leader-Following Approach128
Towards High-Performance Solid-State-LiDAR-Inertial Odometry and Mapping128
A Dexterous Soft Robotic Hand for Delicate In-Hand Manipulation126
EGO-Planner: An ESDF-Free Gradient-Based Local Planner for Quadrotors126
Deep Neural Network Approach in Robot Tool Dynamics Identification for Bilateral Teleoperation124
Graduated Non-Convexity for Robust Spatial Perception: From Non-Minimal Solvers to Global Outlier Rejection124
DOOR-SLAM: Distributed, Online, and Outlier Resilient SLAM for Robotic Teams123
Mobile Robot Path Planning in Dynamic Environments Through Globally Guided Reinforcement Learning118
Lio-A Personal Robot Assistant for Human-Robot Interaction and Care Applications117
On an Improved State Parametrization for Soft Robots With Piecewise Constant Curvature and Its Use in Model Based Control114
Nonlinear MPC for Collision Avoidance and Control of UAVs With Dynamic Obstacles114
Online Trajectory Generation With Distributed Model Predictive Control for Multi-Robot Motion Planning113
An Open Torque-Controlled Modular Robot Architecture for Legged Locomotion Research111
BADGR: An Autonomous Self-Supervised Learning-Based Navigation System111
CNN-Based Lidar Point Cloud De-Noising in Adverse Weather111
Data-Driven MPC for Quadrotors110
DeepGait: Planning and Control of Quadrupedal Gaits Using Deep Reinforcement Learning107
Pixel-Level Extrinsic Self Calibration of High Resolution LiDAR and Camera in Targetless Environments107
Learning Robust Control Policies for End-to-End Autonomous Driving From Data-Driven Simulation107
Distributed Proprioception of 3D Configuration in Soft, Sensorized Robots via Deep Learning106
Cross-View Semantic Segmentation for Sensing Surroundings106
DynaSLAM II: Tightly-Coupled Multi-Object Tracking and SLAM105
R $^2$ LIVE: A Robust, Real-Time, LiDAR-Inertial-Visual Tightly-Coupled State Estimator and Mapping99
CNN Based Road User Detection Using the 3D Radar Cube98
Real-Time Fusion Network for RGB-D Semantic Segmentation Incorporating Unexpected Obstacle Detection for Road-Driving Images97
Visual-Inertial Mapping With Non-Linear Factor Recovery96
Spatiotemporal Relationship Reasoning for Pedestrian Intent Prediction96
SLOAM: Semantic Lidar Odometry and Mapping for Forest Inventory96
A Unified MPC Framework for Whole-Body Dynamic Locomotion and Manipulation95
TLIO: Tight Learned Inertial Odometry95
Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Data: A Learning-Based Approach Exploiting Sequential Data92
Safe and Fast Tracking on a Robot Manipulator: Robust MPC and Neural Network Control92
A Teleoperation Framework for Mobile Robots Based on Shared Control92
BALM: Bundle Adjustment for Lidar Mapping91
DSEC: A Stereo Event Camera Dataset for Driving Scenarios90
3D-MiniNet: Learning a 2D Representation From Point Clouds for Fast and Efficient 3D LIDAR Semantic Segmentation89
FUEL: Fast UAV Exploration Using Incremental Frontier Structure and Hierarchical Planning89
RLBench: The Robot Learning Benchmark & Learning Environment89
Forecasting Trajectory and Behavior of Road-Agents Using Spectral Clustering in Graph-LSTMs86
Grasping in the Wild: Learning 6DoF Closed-Loop Grasping From Low-Cost Demonstrations86
ERASOR: Egocentric Ratio of Pseudo Occupancy-Based Dynamic Object Removal for Static 3D Point Cloud Map Building85
Self-Supervised Learning of State Estimation for Manipulating Deformable Linear Objects85
Ground-Aware Monocular 3D Object Detection for Autonomous Driving83
Interactive Gibson Benchmark: A Benchmark for Interactive Navigation in Cluttered Environments81
A Robust UAV System for Operations in a Constrained Environment80
Robot Navigation in Crowds by Graph Convolutional Networks With Attention Learned From Human Gaze78
Learning Force Control for Contact-Rich Manipulation Tasks With Rigid Position-Controlled Robots78
Real-Time Semantic Segmentation With Fast Attention77
Control Oriented Modeling of Soft Robots: The Polynomial Curvature Case75
Autonomy in Physical Human-Robot Interaction: A Brief Survey74
Track to Reconstruct and Reconstruct to Track74
Real-Time Gait Phase Estimation for Robotic Hip Exoskeleton Control During Multimodal Locomotion73
LOCUS: A Multi-Sensor Lidar-Centric Solution for High-Precision Odometry and 3D Mapping in Real-Time72
Sim2Real Predictivity: Does Evaluation in Simulation Predict Real-World Performance?72
Augmented LiDAR Simulator for Autonomous Driving71
DeepFactors: Real-Time Probabilistic Dense Monocular SLAM71
Combining Events and Frames Using Recurrent Asynchronous Multimodal Networks for Monocular Depth Prediction71
High-Speed Autonomous Drifting With Deep Reinforcement Learning70
LQR-Assisted Whole-Body Control of a Wheeled Bipedal Robot With Kinematic Loops69
Recovery RL: Safe Reinforcement Learning With Learned Recovery Zones69
BiTraP: Bi-Directional Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction With Multi-Modal Goal Estimation69
Multi-Agent Motion Planning for Dense and Dynamic Environments via Deep Reinforcement Learning68
Structure-SLAM: Low-Drift Monocular SLAM in Indoor Environments67
MinneApple: A Benchmark Dataset for Apple Detection and Segmentation67
Range-Focused Fusion of Camera-IMU-UWB for Accurate and Drift-Reduced Localization67
A Two-Stage Reinforcement Learning Approach for Multi-UAV Collision Avoidance Under Imperfect Sensing66
Unified Multi-Modal Landmark Tracking for Tightly Coupled Lidar-Visual-Inertial Odometry66
Rolling in the Deep – Hybrid Locomotion for Wheeled-Legged Robots Using Online Trajectory Optimization66
CoHOG: A Light-Weight, Compute-Efficient, and Training-Free Visual Place Recognition Technique for Changing Environments66
Elastica: A Compliant Mechanics Environment for Soft Robotic Control65
Cooperative Team Strategies for Multi-Player Perimeter-Defense Games65
Particle Swarm Optimization for Cooperative Multi-Robot Task Allocation: A Multi-Objective Approach64
Don’t Forget The Past: Recurrent Depth Estimation from Monocular Video64
A Geometric Variable-Strain Approach for Static Modeling of Soft Manipulators With Tendon and Fluidic Actuation63
M2DGR: A Multi-Sensor and Multi-Scenario SLAM Dataset for Ground Robots63
TiltDrone: A Fully-Actuated Tilting Quadrotor Platform62
Efficient Sampling-Based Maximum Entropy Inverse Reinforcement Learning With Application to Autonomous Driving62
Message-Aware Graph Attention Networks for Large-Scale Multi-Robot Path Planning61
UniFuse: Unidirectional Fusion for 360° Panorama Depth Estimation61
Autonomous UAV Exploration of Dynamic Environments Via Incremental Sampling and Probabilistic Roadmap61
Integrated Task Assignment and Path Planning for Capacitated Multi-Agent Pickup and Delivery60
Direct LiDAR Odometry: Fast Localization With Dense Point Clouds59
Corners for Layout: End-to-End Layout Recovery From 360 Images59
Stepwise Goal-Driven Networks for Trajectory Prediction58
Faster-LIO: Lightweight Tightly Coupled Lidar-Inertial Odometry Using Parallel Sparse Incremental Voxels58
Mine Tunnel Exploration Using Multiple Quadrupedal Robots58
Probabilistic Crowd GAN: Multimodal Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction Using a Graph Vehicle-Pedestrian Attention Network58
A Deep Learning Approach to Grasping the Invisible58
Panoptic Nuscenes: A Large-Scale Benchmark for LiDAR Panoptic Segmentation and Tracking57
Unsupervised Depth Completion From Visual Inertial Odometry57
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Safe Local Planning of a Ground Vehicle in Unknown Rough Terrain57
Patchwork: Concentric Zone-Based Region-Wise Ground Segmentation With Ground Likelihood Estimation Using a 3D LiDAR Sensor56
SuPer: A Surgical Perception Framework for Endoscopic Tissue Manipulation With Surgical Robotics56
EGAD! An Evolved Grasping Analysis Dataset for Diversity and Reproducibility in Robotic Manipulation56
Multi-Class Road User Detection With 3+1D Radar in the View-of-Delft Dataset55
Improving Multi-Agent Trajectory Prediction Using Traffic States on Interactive Driving Scenarios55
ALPHRED: A Multi-Modal Operations Quadruped Robot for Package Delivery Applications55
Full-Pose Manipulation Control of a Cable-Suspended Load With Multiple UAVs Under Uncertainties54
LaneAF: Robust Multi-Lane Detection With Affinity Fields54
Vision-Only Robot Navigation in a Neural Radiance World54
Decentralized Multi-Agent Pursuit Using Deep Reinforcement Learning54
Eye-in-Hand Visual Servoing Enhanced With Sparse Strain Measurement for Soft Continuum Robots53
Spatiotemporal Camera-LiDAR Calibration: A Targetless and Structureless Approach53
Inflatable Soft Wearable Robot for Reducing Therapist Fatigue During Upper Extremity Rehabilitation in Severe Stroke53
ECG: Edge-aware Point Cloud Completion with Graph Convolution53
Run Your Visual-Inertial Odometry on NVIDIA Jetson: Benchmark Tests on a Micro Aerial Vehicle53
OriNet: Robust 3-D Orientation Estimation With a Single Particular IMU52
Actor-Critic Reinforcement Learning for Control With Stability Guarantee52
Perceptive Locomotion in Rough Terrain – Online Foothold Optimization52
Multifunctional Remotely Actuated 3-DOF Supernumerary Robotic Arm Based on Magnetorheological Clutches and Hydrostatic Transmission Lines52
Liquid-Metal Magnetic Soft Robot With Reprogrammable Magnetization and Stiffness51
The ARMM System - Autonomous Steering of Magnetically-Actuated Catheters: Towards Endovascular Applications51
Cooperative Localization and Unknown Currents Estimation Using Multiple Autonomous Underwater Vehicles51
PVStereo: Pyramid Voting Module for End-to-End Self-Supervised Stereo Matching51
UniGrasp: Learning a Unified Model to Grasp With Multifingered Robotic Hands51
Towards the Long-Endurance Flight of an Insect-Inspired, Tailless, Two-Winged, Flapping-Wing Flying Robot51
Object-Independent Human-to-Robot Handovers Using Real Time Robotic Vision51
CorsNet: 3D Point Cloud Registration by Deep Neural Network51
KISS-ICP: In Defense of Point-to-Point ICP – Simple, Accurate, and Robust Registration If Done the Right Way50
PRIMAL$_2$: Pathfinding Via Reinforcement and Imitation Multi-Agent Learning - Lifelong50
Offline Assistance Optimization of a Soft Exosuit for Augmenting Ankle Power of Stroke Survivors During Walking49
GLAS: Global-to-Local Safe Autonomy Synthesis for Multi-Robot Motion Planning With End-to-End Learning49
Towards Efficient Human-Robot Collaboration With Robust Plan Recognition and Trajectory Prediction49
Soft Magnetic Tactile Skin for Continuous Force and Location Estimation Using Neural Networks49
WareVision: CNN Barcode Detection-Based UAV Trajectory Optimization for Autonomous Warehouse Stocktaking48
A Model-Based Sensor Fusion Approach for Force and Shape Estimation in Soft Robotics48
Attack Analysis and Resilient Control Design for Discrete-Time Distributed Multi-Agent Systems48
Learning Variable Impedance Control for Contact Sensitive Tasks48
Magnetic Control of a Steerable Guidewire Under Ultrasound Guidance Using Mobile Electromagnets48
Two Shank-Mounted IMUs-Based Gait Analysis and Classification for Neurological Disease Patients48
A Novel Pneumatic Soft Snake Robot Using Traveling-Wave Locomotion in Constrained Environments48
Intensity-SLAM: Intensity Assisted Localization and Mapping for Large Scale Environment47
A Learnt Approach for the Design of Magnetically Actuated Shape Forming Soft Tentacle Robots47
A Novel Adaptive Controller for Robot Manipulators Based on Active Inference47
SeqNet: Learning Descriptors for Sequence-Based Hierarchical Place Recognition47
Simple, Low-Hysteresis, Foldable, Fabric Pneumatic Artificial Muscle47
OmniDet: Surround View Cameras Based Multi-Task Visual Perception Network for Autonomous Driving46
Performance, Precision, and Payloads: Adaptive Nonlinear MPC for Quadrotors46
V2X-Sim: Multi-Agent Collaborative Perception Dataset and Benchmark for Autonomous Driving46
Automatic Normal Positioning of Robotic Ultrasound Probe Based Only on Confidence Map Optimization and Force Measurement46
A sEMG-Driven Soft ExoSuit Based on Twisted String Actuators for Elbow Assistive Applications46
The ARCHES Space-Analogue Demonstration Mission: Towards Heterogeneous Teams of Autonomous Robots for Collaborative Scientific Sampling in Planetary Exploration46
Automatic Shape Control of Deformable Wires Based on Model-Free Visual Servoing46
Scalable Cooperative Transport of Cable-Suspended Loads With UAVs Using Distributed Trajectory Optimization46
Are We Ready for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Inland Waterways? The USVInland Multisensor Dataset and Benchmark45
Cooperative Aerial-Ground Multi-Robot System for Automated Construction Tasks45
Direct Force Feedback Control and Online Multi-Task Optimization for Aerial Manipulators45
Observer-Extended Direct Method for Collision Monitoring in Robot Manipulators Using Proprioception and IMU Sensing45
DiSCO: Differentiable Scan Context With Orientation45
Hybrid Systems Differential Dynamic Programming for Whole-Body Motion Planning of Legged Robots45
Data–Driven Disturbance Observers for Estimating External Forces on Soft Robots45
A Hybrid Compact Neural Architecture for Visual Place Recognition45
A Real-Time Approach for Chance-Constrained Motion Planning With Dynamic Obstacles45
Endo-Depth-and-Motion: Reconstruction and Tracking in Endoscopic Videos Using Depth Networks and Photometric Constraints44
Benchmarking Bimanual Cloth Manipulation44
Deep Compression for Dense Point Cloud Maps44
Frozone: Freezing-Free, Pedestrian-Friendly Navigation in Human Crowds44
A Dual Quaternion-Based Approach for Coordinate Calibration of Dual Robots in Collaborative Motion44
OverlapTransformer: An Efficient and Yaw-Angle-Invariant Transformer Network for LiDAR-Based Place Recognition44
TACTO: A Fast, Flexible, and Open-Source Simulator for High-Resolution Vision-Based Tactile Sensors44
Interaction-Aware Motion Prediction for Autonomous Driving: A Multiple Model Kalman Filtering Scheme43
Multimodal Deep Generative Models for Trajectory Prediction: A Conditional Variational Autoencoder Approach43
HD Map Update for Autonomous Driving With Crowdsourced Data43
Trajectory Optimization for Wheeled-Legged Quadrupedal Robots Driving in Challenging Terrain43
Design of the High-Payload Flapping Wing Robot E-Flap43
Multi-GAT: A Graphical Attention-Based Hierarchical Multimodal Representation Learning Approach for Human Activity Recognition43
Concurrent Training of a Control Policy and a State Estimator for Dynamic and Robust Legged Locomotion43
Vision-Based Drone Flocking in Outdoor Environments43
Safe Robot Navigation Via Multi-Modal Anomaly Detection43
Effect of Cognitive Fatigue, Operator Sex, and Robot Assistance on Task Performance Metrics, Workload, and Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration42
Panoster: End-to-End Panoptic Segmentation of LiDAR Point Clouds42
Learning Scheduling Policies for Multi-Robot Coordination With Graph Attention Networks42
An Electrostatic/Gecko-Inspired Adhesives Soft Robotic Gripper42
Bayesian Spatial Kernel Smoothing for Scalable Dense Semantic Mapping42
Human-Centered Collaborative Robots With Deep Reinforcement Learning42
Air-to-Air Visual Detection of Micro-UAVs: An Experimental Evaluation of Deep Learning42
A Supernumerary Robotic Leg Powered by Magnetorheological Actuators to Assist Human Locomotion42
GN-Net: The Gauss-Newton Loss for Multi-Weather Relocalization42
DiversityGAN: Diversity-Aware Vehicle Motion Prediction via Latent Semantic Sampling41
Self-Supervised Learning for Precise Pick-and-Place Without Object Model41
DDM: Fast Near-Optimal Multi-Robot Path Planning Using Diversified-Path and Optimal Sub-Problem Solution Database Heuristics41
LAMP 2.0: A Robust Multi-Robot SLAM System for Operation in Challenging Large-Scale Underground Environments41
PointTrackNet: An End-to-End Network For 3-D Object Detection and Tracking From Point Clouds41
Model-Free Safety-Critical Control for Robotic Systems41
Autonomous Quadrotor Flight Despite Rotor Failure With Onboard Vision Sensors: Frames vs. Events41
Model-Based Meta-Reinforcement Learning for Flight With Suspended Payloads41
Generation of GelSight Tactile Images for Sim2Real Learning41
Learning-Based Real-Time Detection of Robot Collisions Without Joint Torque Sensors41
DM-VIO: Delayed Marginalization Visual-Inertial Odometry40
Non-Gaussian Chance-Constrained Trajectory Planning for Autonomous Vehicles Under Agent Uncertainty40
Autonomous Tissue Retraction in Robotic Assisted Minimally Invasive Surgery – A Feasibility Study40
Learning Variable Impedance Control via Inverse Reinforcement Learning for Force-Related Tasks40
Perceptive Model Predictive Control for Continuous Mobile Manipulation40
Super-Human Performance in Gran Turismo Sport Using Deep Reinforcement Learning40
Visual Servoing of a Cable-Driven Soft Robot Manipulator With Shape Feature40
Aerial Single-View Depth Completion With Image-Guided Uncertainty Estimation40
OV$^{2}$SLAM: A Fully Online and Versatile Visual SLAM for Real-Time Applications40
A Fabrication Free, 3D Printed, Multi-Material, Self-Sensing Soft Actuator39
Modular Deep Reinforcement Learning for Continuous Motion Planning With Temporal Logic39
Learning Fast Adaptation With Meta Strategy Optimization39
RGGNet: Tolerance Aware LiDAR-Camera Online Calibration With Geometric Deep Learning and Generative Model39
Optically Sensorized Elastomer Air Chamber for Proprioceptive Sensing of Soft Pneumatic Actuators39
RSL-Net: Localising in Satellite Images From a Radar on the Ground39
LiDAR SLAM With Plane Adjustment for Indoor Environment39
Learning Task-Oriented Grasping From Human Activity Datasets39
A Control Barrier Function Approach for Maximizing Performance While Fulfilling to ISO/TS 15066 Regulations39
Socially and Contextually Aware Human Motion and Pose Forecasting39
Underwater Soft Robot Modeling and Control With Differentiable Simulation39
Tunable Multi-Modal Locomotion in Soft Dielectric Elastomer Robots39
Cooperative Comfortable-Driving at Signalized Intersections for Connected and Automated Vehicles38
Lightweight 3-D Localization and Mapping for Solid-State LiDAR38
Liquid Pouch Motors: Printable Planar Actuators Driven by Liquid-to-Gas Phase Change for Shape-Changing Interfaces38
In-Field Grape Cluster Size Assessment for Vine Yield Estimation Using a Mobile Robot and a Consumer Level RGB-D Camera38
Introducing GARMI - A Service Robotics Platform to Support the Elderly at Home: Design Philosophy, System Overview and First Results38
Vision-Based Autonomous Car Racing Using Deep Imitative Reinforcement Learning38
Design and Control of a Highly Redundant Rigid-flexible Coupling Robot to Assist the COVID-19 Oropharyngeal-Swab Sampling38
Do We Need to Compensate for Motion Distortion and Doppler Effects in Spinning Radar Navigation?38
DCAD: Decentralized Collision Avoidance With Dynamics Constraints for Agile Quadrotor Swarms38
Combining Speed and Separation Monitoring With Power and Force Limiting for Safe Collaborative Robotics Applications38
UFOMap: An Efficient Probabilistic 3D Mapping Framework That Embraces the Unknown38
Benchmarking Protocols for Evaluating Small Parts Robotic Assembly Systems38
GPR-RCNN: An Algorithm of Subsurface Defect Detection for Airport Runway Based on GPR37
Optimization-Based Distributed Flocking Control for Multiple Rigid Bodies37
Learning Open-World Object Proposals Without Learning to Classify37
Socially Compliant Robot Navigation in Crowded Environment by Human Behavior Resemblance Using Deep Reinforcement Learning37
Automatic Labeling to Generate Training Data for Online LiDAR-Based Moving Object Segmentation37
A Lifelong Learning Approach to Mobile Robot Navigation37
Robust Three-Dimensional Shape Sensing for Flexible Endoscopic Surgery Using Multi-Core FBG Sensors37
A Proprioceptive Bellows (PB) Actuator With Position Feedback and Force Estimation37
Self-Supervised Correspondence in Visuomotor Policy Learning37
Monocular 3D Detection With Geometric Constraint Embedding and Semi-Supervised Training36
DeepTIO: A Deep Thermal-Inertial Odometry With Visual Hallucination36
PLF-VINS: Real-Time Monocular Visual-Inertial SLAM With Point-Line Fusion and Parallel-Line Fusion36
Monte-Carlo Tree Search for Efficient Visually Guided Rearrangement Planning36
Semantic Histogram Based Graph Matching for Real-Time Multi-Robot Global Localization in Large Scale Environment36
Towards FBG-Based Shape Sensing for Micro-Scale and Meso-Scale Continuum Robots With Large Deflection36
Towards Better Surgical Instrument Segmentation in Endoscopic Vision: Multi-Angle Feature Aggregation and Contour Supervision36
GA-Nav: Efficient Terrain Segmentation for Robot Navigation in Unstructured Outdoor Environments36
Reinforcement Learned Distributed Multi-Robot Navigation With Reciprocal Velocity Obstacle Shaped Rewards36
PTP: Parallelized Tracking and Prediction With Graph Neural Networks and Diversity Sampling36
Marker-Less Micro Aerial Vehicle Detection and Localization Using Convolutional Neural Networks36
A New Approach to 3D ICP Covariance Estimation35
Visual Object Search by Learning Spatial Context35
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